33rd year - N° 58 Tuesday, 27 February 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 58 Tuesday, 27 February 2018

27 February / Today's 14 Events:

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(x) 288 years ago Monday 27th of February 1730 Start of the trial against 65-year-old Soldier and adventurer Francis Charteris aka The Rape-Master General for the rape of Anne Bond on 10 November 1729 in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The jury quickly found Charteris guilty. On 2 March, he was sentenced to death and held in Newgate Prison. On 10 April 1730 after a substantial campaign to pardon Charteris, joined by Anne Bond, King George II granted him a royal pardon.

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(x) 164 years ago Monday 27th of February 1854 44-year-old Romantic composer Robert Schumann tries to commit suicide by throwing himself from a bridge into the Rhine River in Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Schumann was rescued by boatmen and taken home, he asked to be taken to an asylum for the insane.

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(+) 157 years ago Wednesday 27th of February 1861 Philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy is born in Ludbreška ulica 13, Kraljevec, Međimurska županija, Austria-Hungary.

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(-) 131 years ago Sunday 27th of February 1887 Composer Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin dies of poor health at the age of 54 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 86 years ago Saturday 27th of February 1932 Actress Elizabeth Rosemond 'Liz' Taylor is born in Heathwood, 8 Wildwood Road, Hampstead, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 85 years ago Monday 27th of February 1933 24-year-old Communist and presumed arsonist Marinus Van der Lubbe known for the Reichstag fire is arrested in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 63 years ago Sunday 27th of February 1955 Musician Peter Martin Christopherson aka Sleazy is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 60 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1958 Punk icon Nancy Laura Spungen aka Nauseating Nancy is born in University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 48 years ago Friday 27th of February 1970 32-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 7th 'Abreaktionsspiel' in Aktionsraum 1, Waltherstraße 25, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 34 years ago Monday 27th of February 1984 Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter in United States Federal Building and Courthouse, 605 West Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, United States.

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(x) 26 years ago Thursday 27th of February 1992 42-year-old Serial killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper is arrested in Miami, Florida, United States.

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(x) 14 years ago Friday 27th of February 2004 116 die in SuperFerry 14 bomb explosion in Manila Bay, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines. Redondo Cain Dellosa later admitted to planting the bomb on board for the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group. Founder of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement, Ruben Omar Pestano Lavilla, Jr. was arrested in Bahrain on 24 July 2008 as the mastermind behind the bombing.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 27th of February 2005 Dorothea Olkowski's impressive high heels during her lecture at AMVK's 'HeadNurse' booklaunch in M_hka, Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 3 years ago His Long and Prosperous Life Ended Friday 27th of February 2015 Actor Leonard Simon Nimoy aka Mr. Spock dies of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 84 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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